“FIRE PHANTOM’S” RAIDS
CAPTURE ELUDED BREST, Deo. 51.—An unknown in cendiary has struck fear in the hearts of the French peasants on the Pointe du Raz region of Finisterre. Since tlie beginning of tiic year mysterious fires have been breaking out at niglit* destroying stables, barns, haystacks, and even fields of crops. In the last month the arson inis been intensified. Although the farmers have set up patrols the “fire phantom” as he is called, seems to elude them. All efforts of the police to find the criminal have been in vain. The country people are afraid to sleep at ..light and there is an ugly .mood in some villages as the peasants suspect each other of being the .“fire pliantcm.’’
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 160, 20 March 1939, Page 1
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121“FIRE PHANTOM’S” RAIDS Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 160, 20 March 1939, Page 1
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